Circularity; or, Southern Gospel’s Life on the Margins

Study different kinds of charts for any amount of time, and it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly that the form a chart takes and the methodology it uses is a product of its function (or should be), of what the chart is meant to accomplish. Charts spring up and take hold because there is a […]

The Dino of sg

Nah, but Anthony Burger is out with his new single (from a tribute project to Bill Gaither), “He Touched Me” - the same ubiquitous Gaither number that Dino covered on another […]

Why didn’t I think of that?

Now this is a fine idea. But even before trading music, I’d just be happy with a site that had a decent selection of used, rare, and out of print sg […]

Down the home stretch

“Stop barking up this tree,” a reader, whose opinion I respect immensely, wrote today. “All of the astute haranguing won’t change things. There are deeper problems endemic to […]

Interpretive difficulty

From Chuck Peters’ most recent post:
If I were one of the charting station programmers [to whom Rick Hendrix said “could it be a #1? […]

It needs to break into double digits

Ok, go take this poll … 50% ought to comprise more than 6 people (as it does at the time I write).

Picture perfect

If you haven’t been following Jerry Kirksey’s photo posts lately, you really should. For once, it’s like the SN read my mind. Anyway, Danny Jones explains […]

Good for him

While I regret to see a talented young musician leave the stage, I’ve got to say I’m delighted, on the face of it, to hear that DBQ’s Andrew Smith is leaving […]

Beyond our own borders

As I threatened slash promised a few days ago that I would do, I want to elaborate fairly briefly (for me, at least, about this particular subject, anyway) on some of the alternatives […]

New mercies I see

Alert reader CG noted that - miracle of miracles - Mercy’s Mark has been given the Wilburn’s spot on the Friday night lineup at NQC. Outstanding.